Up the Dev Env

The goals of this week were to set up the development environment -- in which all the header (.h) files, the shared libraries, and the compiler tools are in place -- to the point I can chroot to that environment and compile my GTK+ programs. Also to decide what software I really want to develop.

So tried to set up chroot environment. Didn't work because gcc seems to have hard-coded header file and library search path, and chroot changes the path structure completely. I could pass arguments on the command line to add search paths during compile time, but that would be really messy. Not a way to go at all.

So after failure of chroot, I decided to install all necessary header and libraries in gcc's search path. That didn't really work either, because of library dependencies, there are over 50 packages I have to install manually. I spent about 2 days installing packages and modifying pkg-config .pc files and I'm still missing libraries. It wasn't fun and very frustrating to say the least.